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I loved this renovation of the Bauer kitchen. It's unfortunate that the set wasn't used more (I seem to recall as soon as Peter Simon left we saw less and less of the Bauer household.)

Yep, that set is from the Paul Rauch/John Conboy era. And #3 is definitely Danny and Michelle's mansion.

Omg I knew this would happen but I didn’t know now!! DAYS better do him justice

Yummy Josh Casaubon, wish his OLTL character had stayed on longer, he was such nice eye candy to look at. 😍

I'm getting the feeling that because Penny and Sonia are cousins, the show wants us to believe that Penny has been in contact with the Brannings since childhood, just never showing up on the square. I'm not sure if we've seen Penny since she was a kid though. From Wiki; 2009-2023: Mentions In March 2010, Ronnie asks Jack about Penny and he says she is doing fine without him and that Penny made the right decision to go to France. In October 2013, Jack moves to France to reconnect with Penny, briefly returning to Walford for a visit during Christmas 2015. After Jack permanently returns to Walford, Penny calls Jack in December 2016 to tell him she cannot attend his second wedding to Ronnie because of a doctor's appointment in Paris. On 18 February 2020, Penny was mentioned by Max Branning when Max and Jack were having a fight.

I had seen the spoiler for this and it played out how i expected it; ridiculous and unnecessary. I thought they were working on pairing Aadi up with Tracy's daughter.

Guiding Light Ben Reade undervalued Shayne Lewis undervalued. Every time we got a recast it was like a different character compared to the last. Samantha Marler undervalued/underdeveloped. Pretty crazy how we never heard from her again after her departure in the early 90s. India took in a kid by the name of Dorie, and India returned three times after her departure in the 80s, and Dorie was never mentioned. Could've been India's Achilles heel of sorts when it came to India's involvement the Spaulding corporate drama over the years. Matthew Evans was Amanda Spaulding's younger brother (his parents Jennifer and Mark Evans) and could have mixed it up with Michelle Bauer/Ben Reade/Billy Lewis. Emily Norris was the daughter of Ken Norris and Janet Mason. Ken returned in the late 90s, but the show of course had no interest at the time in it's history. Emily would've added to the Holly/Blake/Roger/Ed dynamic. William "Billy" Fletcher son of Peggy Scott; instead of introducing Hart Jessupt/Laura Jessup as part of Roger's history would've been quite nice to have Peggy's son return and increasingly become like a surrogate son to Roger with Blake growing jealous while on the outs with Roger. Andy Norris was written off and sent to jail after blackmailing the residents of Springfield; but I think the show should've brought him back at some point down the road to continue being a headache for both the Spaulding and Lewis families(Andy's history with Trish/his history with Alan).

Sucks that he gets a promotion even though he's a complete and total hack. I just hope this means that with him being moved to a higher position, that we will get a new EP for Coronation Street, sort of like how they have Kate Oates over BBC dramatic programming, but Chris Clenshaw is the EP of EastEnders.

RIP Bridget Dobson. She shaped so much of my show GL, and made an lasting impact not just at GL but their other shows. I've always wondered how the Dobson's would have fared at THE DOCTORS after the Pollocks departed, replacing another couple who were writers and known for their long drawn and sometimes intricate stories.

I’ll laugh my butt off if the tptb notice an uptick in streams under the scab writer material and then a dip after we go back to Ron’s writing.😂

How, predictable.

Looks like ATWT fell quite a bit. Impressive numbers for AMC. Another World also rebounding (I wonder why).

GL: Brian Gaskill's Dylan Lewis 🤣 and the last actress to play Susan Lemay/Daisy. Honestly, Y&R, AMC, and GL could have their own threads when it comes to this.

My guess was Reva's stalker was going to turn out to be Jonathan who resented Reva for not only giving him up, but for killing his father Richard. It would've made sense since we just had resolved the Richard/pull the plug storyline and suddenly somebody was stalking Reva.

I agree, the writing and production was good. Everything after that went downhill.

That would have been a good choice casting wise.

Just more randomness courtesy of Josh....

LOL Wasn't it discussed in another thread how he was paraded from CBS soap to CBS soap, and here he pops up again, a decade later 🤣

IMO the show would've been better off with Allen Potter as EP during the 80s.

You could always delve into Sharon's childhood and who her father is.

Weston/Conboy derailed a noble attempt by Rauch/Taggart/Culliton to ground and center the show. Even though they may have gotten the ratings up for what I believe was Feb Sweeps of 2004 with that ridiculous Maryanne Carruthers story, they were just as destructive to the show's core as some of their predecessors; McTavish, B&E, etc.

Congrats. The show has actually been making gains month to month all year. This was to be expected, but good news ultimately; being their most watched episode for Xmas since 2019.

Bless it.

Of course the quality of Days would approve while RC is away and the scab writers are at the helm. lol I hope somebody decides to bite the bullet and wrap up some of his stories eventually.

RIP Kamar 😥 As complicated as was his final years on OLTL were, (propping of Antonio's character) I preferred those above the propping the show did with John McBain's character during it's last few years. And of course those fond memories of Antonio's first few years on the show.